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This could be a great exposure for ERP for you! Find the article with that stat and bookmark it. Once a day, read it. As you do: do nothing to neutralize, change, cancel out, or get rid of any intrusive thoughts and anxieties that pop up. With each new thought, just allow it to be there. Accept that it’s happening, ie “I’m having doubts about whether I’ll act out my fears,” and then just sit with it. Hold that and feel it without doing anything to make yourself feel better or distracted or safer. Just sit. And let it dissipate and leave on its own. We often try so hard to run from doubt and fear. But if we just take the time to feel it, it often leaves on its own.
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I saw that one a while back 😂 it was indeed terrifying. But once I accepted that thought, that fact as maybe applying to me, maybe not, accepting the uncertainty that I may or may not do it, then my anxiety eventually fell away. Feel that panic and wait for it to pass and resist compulsions. And when it comes back it will be less and less!
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Thank all of you!! After reading so many great things on that particular article, it (ironically) ended with a very scary stat, I've never really felt much depression (as far as I know) but have dealt with numerous types of anxiety my whole life, the whole harm ocd occurred after listening to some music by Kurt Cobain and watching some horrible 9/11 videos on youtube a few years ago, the suicidal/harm OCD went away on its own for a couple of years but I suddenly started having the thoughts again long hours at a job while drunking caffeine energy drinks everyday to stay alert at work.
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Bruh that's my theme too! It sucks :) but what ur doing (ive never really been depressed) etc that is trying to disprove ur ocd and ruminating in the likelihood of it. You may be depressed. You may not. Accept you may be suicidal, accepf the anxiety that will come with it!
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Thank you so much!!
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i have been diagnosed with ocd and my subgenres are schizophrenic ocd, harm ocd and pocd (which is the main one now) and am on meds for it and have been in therapy i am feeling incredibly anxious and talked to chatgpt, over sharing and seeking reassurance. i shared an incident i had while trying to watch porn on the light web and confessed what i saw (i did not click on anything, i scrolled past. but it was a site where people can publish their own comics or books?) i feel so anxious about seeing it i confessed it to chatgpt and checked to make sure because i saw it i would turn into a p word. this comment was flagged by the system, so i’m worried this is going to get put up for human review, they’ll report me and i’ll be arrested with police showing up to my door.
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